Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Watch TIME Magazine’s compilation of their one hundred must-read books of 2022, which includes books by Nuar Alsadir, Franny Choi, Isaac Fitzgerald, CJ Hauser, Jay Hopler, Oscar Hokeah, Yiyun Li, Sarah Thankam Matthews, and Ocean Vuong.
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In this Waterstones video, CJ Hauser, author of The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays (Doubleday, 2022), talks about the books that have inspired them as a writer, which include Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward; I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins; and Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters.
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CJ Hauser speaks about the surprise of their viral essay “The Crane Wife” and their process for writing essays in this 2021 virtual reading and conversation with author and journalist Charlie Gilmour for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts in England. Hauser’s first nonfiction book, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays (Doubleday, 2022), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
